Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity? 1 Many a face will be disgraced on that day. 2 Travailing, worn. 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 no food for them except thorny plants 6 Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 (Other) faces that Day will be joyful, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 They will live in an exalted garden 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 and raised couches, 13 And cups set at hand. 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 and carpets spread out. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 And at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 You are not a warden over them, 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment, 24 To Us they will all return. 25 Then it will be for Us to call them to account. 26